We brought you exclusive news of the Charge Bikes Cooker 29er a while back as well as a video interview with designer Nick Larsen. The Cooker is their first foray into the world of big wheels, Nick admitting that he hadn’t thought much of other 29″ wheeled bikes he’d test ridden. The aim was to provide a bike that had benefits of the bigger wheel while keeping the fast handling and classic feel of their 26″ bikes.

Here’s a rather nicely shot bit of riding and interview from the lens of Alex Rankin….

Many companies that have held back from 29ers always start with saying exactly the same. Then the bike turns up and has remarkably similar geometry to the others. Only Banshee and Canfield have delivered anything truly different

frame looks nice, quite slack head angle or is that just the way the bike was leaning? no mention of whether it has an EBB or sliding drops. agreed that the specs there don’t sound very tempting, but frame only would probably do well. must go and find those trails…